Tuesday, February 18, 2025

Close to Home by Tom Zimmerman



close to home

 

cold beer in front of me & black dog at

my feet   //   my wife’s on Zoom pro football’s on

the muted mega screen TV   //   routine 

has morphed me to a chimpanzee who irons

his own shirts   //   the music in my earbuds

good but too damn smooth Rachmaninov   //

behooves me to beware delusion not sure 

where these words came from can’t weaponize

them yet  //   the poet that i’m reading says

she cannot write the lovely kinds of poems 

her schooling trained her in   //   ah well the darkest

path is close to home  //   the what & how

& when & god yes why mean next to nothing 

who am i & where do i belong


© Tom Zimmerman


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Thomas Zimmerman

Thomas Zimmerman (he/him/his) teaches English, directs the Writing Center, and edits The Big Windows Review https://thebigwindowsreview.com/ at Washtenaw Community College, in Ann Arbor, Michigan. His latest poetry book is My Night to Cook (Cyberwit, 2024). Website:  https:/thomaszimmerman.wordpress.com  Twitter: @bwr_tom   Instagram: tzman2012

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